South Korea court gives ex-First Lady Kim Keon Hee seven-year jail term for briberySouth Korea's former First Lady Kim Keon Hee has been sentenced to seven years in prison for accepting bribes, including luxury jewellery, ...
26 Jun, 2026, 02.17 PM IST
Armenia prepares for an election that could reshape ties with Moscow and the WestArmenia's parliamentary elections are a pivotal vote on its geopolitical future, with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeking closer EU and ...
07 Jun, 2026, 06.57 AM IST
Amid dissent in Trinamool Congress ranks, Mamata Banerjee's 'Girgiti' poem takes swipe at political turncoatsTrinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has written a new poem titled 'Girgiti' or Chameleon. Political observers believe it is a message ...
29 May, 2026, 05.22 PM IST
Who is Yaoning ‘Mike’ Sun? China’s illegal agent serving as California political operative, aided Eileen Wang, sentenced to 4 years in federal prisonA 65-year-old political strategist, Yaoning "Mike" Sun, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for acting as an undisclosed agent of the Peop...
12 May, 2026, 10.55 AM IST
DMK's family rule marked by corruption; NDA alliance will form govt in Tamil Nadu on May 4: Piyush GoyalUnion Minister Piyush Goyal alleged corruption and "family rule" under the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, citing bribery for government jobs...
18 Apr, 2026, 01.58 PM IST
PM lauds SC verdict in JMM bribery case, says it will ensure clean politicsSC overturned its own order in the case in which four MPs from the party were charged with taking money to vote in favour of the Narasimha ...
04 Mar, 2024, 11.56 PM IST
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu faces legal trial and political tribulationsIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal and political troubles will play out simultaneously on Monday, at his corruption trial an...
05 Apr, 2021, 12.03 PM IST
Supreme Court dismisses plea to make electoral offences cognisableA bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to entertain a PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay that sought to make electoral offe...
27 Aug, 2018, 01.33 PM IST
Persons booked for serious offences should be barred from elections, says CECThis is if charges have been framed by a competent court, the offence is punishable by imprisonment of at least five years and the case is ...
12 Mar, 2018, 08.58 PM IST
All future elections to be held with VVPAT: CEC Nasim ZaidiZaidi said that representatives of political parties have presented their detailed views and suggestions at the meeting, that stretched for...
13 May, 2017, 01.31 AM IST
Arvind Kejriwal seeks permission from EC to repeat 'accept bribe' remarkHolding that the EC misinterpreted his comments, Delhi CM asked the poll panel to make him the brand ambassador to put an end to bribery in...
23 Jan, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
'Selective and excessive' advertising being used as political bribery: Arun JaitleySpeaking at an event organised by RSS linked Inderprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra, Jaitley said that new methods are being witnessed in the co...
20 May, 2016, 04.57 PM IST
Bar bribery: Conspiracy hatched at CPI(M) MLA's house, says Babu"A deliberate political conspiracy was hatched at a CPI (M) MLA's residence on December 15 last year (to target the UDF government) over th...
13 Nov, 2015, 02.39 PM IST
Change in leadership not on agenda: Ramesh ChennithalaHis comments come a day after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy dismissed reports relating to demand for leadership change in Kerala from a sect...
30 Apr, 2015, 07.34 PM IST
- Next: Supply Side of Corruption
The battle against corruption will never be won until the bribe-giving corporate class is taken into account.
28 Apr, 2011, 07.43 AM IST
- Nobody will be spared if found guilty: Speaker
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday said nobody will be spared if found guilty in the allegations of bribery to three BJP MPs f...
22 Jul, 2008, 07.02 PM IST
- APEC code cracks down on bribery
A drive to eradicate bribery and corruption in business deals was launched in a wide-ranging code of conduct unveiled at an Asia Pacific me...
07 Sep, 2007, 09.50 AM IST